by David Matheson | Nov 20, 2013 | Innovation Management
Dennis Hong Dr. Dennis Hong of RoMeLa presented a very entertaining keynote at BEI13. I had an opportunity to chat with him following his talk and asked a few questions about his inspirations and how he designs and builds his robots. Here is a short summary of our...
by David Matheson | Nov 2, 2012 | Innovation Management
Lego nearly went bankrupt because of its innovation. Looking for new growth around the turn of the century, they took expert advice on how to grow through innovation and tried everything: open innovation, disruptive innovation, blue ocean, walking in their customers...
by David Matheson | Oct 26, 2012 | Innovation Management
At the recent Back End of Innovation conference, Ron Adner, author of The Wide Lens, gave real insight into one of the holy grails of innovation: how can you be successful when you need to create a new ecosystem? The almost tired example of the iPod illustrates what...
by David Matheson | Aug 24, 2012 | Innovation Management
The traditional models of innovation, based on planning and making reasonable assumptions, don’t work. To make innovation work requires a radical rethink based on the reality of efforts that don’t go according to plan and that can achieve unreasonable levels of...
by David Matheson | Apr 9, 2012 | Innovation Management
The assumption that sound business judgment can be verified by gathering information from ongoing activities is a prevalent one. Organizations frequently find themselves in a situation where they think that they have made wise choices since they have: An authoritative...
by Somik Raha | Oct 14, 2011 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
When making decisions in organizations, we waste a lot of time chasing things that don’t matter. Sometimes, we even get into shouting matches over what’s most important. To make matters worse, we can often get into analysis paralysis, unable to move the ball forward....
